• @[email protected]
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    464 months ago

    Trumpeter here, I’d be insulted if I was called a horn. Might be regional, but that’s not common here. If we’re speaking about horns, it’s only French horns

    • Captain Aggravated
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      404 months ago

      Another trumpeter here. If it was a wind instrument that didn’t have a reed it was called a horn.

    • @[email protected]
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      144 months ago

      Enh, in my experience “horn” refers to a French horn, but “horns” refers to all brass (separate from woodwinds, percussion, etc).

      But yeah, if somebody referred to a horn, I’d assume they meant French horn.

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      74 months ago

      In my experience its very common, just to give a counterpoint. “Bring in the horns” to denote a trumpet heavy section, or just referring to the brass section as “the horn section”. 8dk might just be reguonal i guess but its colloquial.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        Doesn’t look like that article says anything about trumpets to me. It does link to this article about horns, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument)

        That one says:

        In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width through most of its length—that is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical.[1]

        Which seems to specifically exclude trumpets from horns.

        • Executive Chimp
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          24 months ago

          Most of these horn sections feature some combination of saxophones, trumpets and trombones.

          Also the popular music section includes two photos with people playing trumpet and lists a bunch of horn sections, most of which contain trumpets.